A former bartender drugged and raped inside the Plaza Hotel by a member of a Saudi prince’s entourage was awarded $1.25 million in compensatory damages and $1 million in punitive damages by a federal judge on Tuesday.
In a lengthy damages opinion, U.S. District Judge Robert Sweet of the Southern District of New York awarded unnamed plaintiff “Jane Doe” punitive damages while writing that “the sexual violence committed by the defendant undeniably constitutes morally reprehensible or utterly reckless behavior.”
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